Ben Hogan Quotes

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.